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Category Archives: Culture
A Generation as a Biblical Category
It’s important for the Christian to know the character of the generation he hails from, and what generation preceded him, as well as what sort might follow after him.More
Three Things That Are Too Wonderful for Joe Rogan, Four He Does Not Understand
Eagles, serpents, ships, and men who go a-courting are all marvelous to behold. But there are a few other things too wonderful for Rogan; a few more he just doesn’t understand.More
American Character and the 2022 Election Not Changing Much Socially or Politically
If most Americans have either remained stubbornly polarized, or else defiantly disengaged, it’s not all that surprising that the election outcomes are still coming in upside down.More
Big Tech Has Been Picking the Winners and Losers of My Generation
Big Tech has been picking winners and losers for a generation now – more specifically, for my generation that came into young adulthood of our 20’s and 30’s during the Internet Age. More
Little House on the Prairie and Star Trek The Next Generation
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Gene Roddenberry answered these questions very differently. And speaking personally, I think Ms. Laura had the right of it by being humbler and more down-to-earth.More
Book Review: ‘The Magna Carta of Humanity’ by Os Guinness
Like Alexis de Tocqueville, Os Guinness is a figure I have heard quoted often in books and interviews for several years but never read directly myself – until now. More
Book Review: ‘How Should We Then Live’ by Francis A. Schaeffer
Here Schaeffer tells us the story of how our beliefs about God and ourselves have influenced the kind of art we enjoy, how we organize ourselves, and how we govern and are governed in turn.More
China: The Enemy Within, and Attitudes Toward Conspiracy Theories
If Lee Smith’s DW docuseries on the decades-long sale of American national interest to the Chinese Communist Party is even the half of it, where do we find ourselves?More
Aesthetics and Ugliness and the Super Bowl LVI Commercials
For as long as I can remember Super Bowl commercials have been a primary rather than secondary reason to watch at least one game of football per year.More